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When her late father's diaries are discovered after a tragic accident, Elizabeth, whose eyesight has failed, explores the diaries and the mysteries of her past with the help of Morgan, a delinquent teenager performing community service at Elizabeth's retirement home.
182) Creeper on the case
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"When Gerald's mom says he should get more "involved" at school, he joins the newspaper staff. But reporting on current events is a snooze, until he stumbles onto a few mysteries. Why is Room 117 always locked? What is the disgusting smell coming out of Mr. Zane's briefcase? And . . . why is Gerald's best friend, Sam the Slime, suddenly acting so strangely? Someone has to figure out what's really going on at Mob Middle School. But never fear--Gerald...
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"A bright, contemporary and fearless novel about an ordinary extraordinary eleven-year-old trying to win back her best friend and get her mother to stop sighing. Cricket Karlsson is going to become an artist just like her aunt, who loves cheese and art and always speaks her mind. Not like Cricket's mother, who is dieting and sighs at everything. But now Aunt Frannie has lost her joy and Cricket's best friend has dumped her for the horse girls. Eleven-year-old...
187) Eva y Bebé Mo
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"¡La vida de Eva es muy AGITADA! Eva tiene muchas ganas de cuidar a su hermanito. Junto a sus amigas, prepara caramelos de insecto, un show de títeres y una canción de cuna. ¡Están listas para CUALQUIER COSA! Pero pronto Eva descubre que cuidar a un bebé es una GRAN tarea. ¿Podrá lograr que Bebé Mo se duerma antes de que sus padres regresen?"--Page 4 of cover.
"Eva is excited to babysit her little brother, Mo. She and her friends prepare...
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"The three essential John Updike novels collected here--the scandalous Couples, the second Rabbit book, Rabbit Redux, and the uproarious A month of Sundays--form an indelible triptych of the social upheaval that roiled America from the Kennedy to the Nixon years. Written with the grace, verve and style of one of American literature's most beguiling entertainers, these books reveal Updike's genius in characterization, his formal versatility as a novelist,...
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Cuando Brandon, su enamorado, revela que el refugio de animales donde trabaja como voluntario está en peligro de ser cerrado, Nikki y sus amigos participan en una competencia de patinaje sobre hielo para ayudar a recaudar dinero, un esfuerzo que se ve comprometido por la interferencia de Mackenzie.
191) Sarah's ground
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In 1861, eighteen-year-old Sarah Tracy, from New York state, comes to work at Mount Vernon, the historic Virginia home of George Washington, where she tries to protect the safety and neutrality of the site during the Civil War, and where she encounters her future husband, Upton Herbert.
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"Un escritor famoso viene de visita a Arbolópolis. Eva debe escribir un cuento para mostrárselo. Pero se le pierde su mascota y no puede pensar en otra cosa que en Gastón. ¿Podrá estar lista a tiempo para la visita del famoso escritor?"--Provided by publisher.
When they learn that a famous author is coming to visit Treetopolis, Eva and her classmates are assigned to write stories to share with the author, but Eva is so worried about her...